Attack on a child

4Chickens

I am sooooo angry I need to share this.

My 14yo son was attacked on Friday night. I say night, it was 5.30pm and still daylight. A gang of approx 17 teenagers appeared in the street where he was playing with 2 of his mates. A lad approached him and one of his mates and started talking to his mate. Someone at the back of the large group shouted "I recognise him, he's the cocky one from the other day". This lad then just punched my son in the face. His nose was cut and bleeding and his glasses were broken. Then some of the others gathered around and tried to take my son's bike from him so he let it go and started to walk away. Then another of the gang started to follow my son. When my son turned around, this other lad pulled a baseball bat from underneath his hoody and threatened my son with it. My son took off and knocked at the door of one of his friends. Thankfully his mate's mum took him in. When I got my son home I called the police straight away. And do you know when they turned up? 7.00pm on Sunday evening and that was only after my husband logded a police complaint. A WPC came out and took a statement, but she was so unsympathetic you could'nt make it up. She was rather abrupt with my son and did'nt explain anything to him (he has mild asperger's). Then she told us that unless we find out where the attacker lives there is nothing the police can do. And even if they know of him then he will only get a caution. There were plenty of witnesses to the attack but because the police left it 48 hrs most are likely not to be prepared to get involved. Fortunately we took photos of his injuries on Friday night to prove that it did happen. I am angry that some little thug is going to get away with this and sad that the youth of today feel that they can behave in such a way. I don't know whether to let my son out in the evenings now in case these kids are so brasen as to come back and try it again. I don't know what to do or say. I feel so completely helpless and that I am not capable of protecting my son.

jinky67

:grouphug: I sometimes wonder whose side the police are on.
I am certain they know who these hooligans are.But if questioned they would all deny it anyway.
Hope your son is ok

Sola

Something similar happened to my stepson a few months ago; it took the stepson calling, a passerby calling, and eventually stepson's Granddad to go into the police station for them to even take a statement. They just weren't interested even though the gang responsible is well-known.

quietheart

Your poor boy. Just want to send a :grouphug:

4Chickens

Thanks for your support.

There is just so much wrong with the system. It's like David and Goliath.

I maybe suspicious but in the first few minutes of the WPC talking to my son, she asked him if he was prepared to go to court. My son said yes he would. It wasn't until the end of the statement that she informed us that the little scumbag, if caught, would only get a caution (which does not mean a criminal conviction) and also that you can have three cautions for an offense before you are arrested for it. So there are two completely innocent victims out there with a punch in the nose coming to them, except they don't know it yet. And this scumbag is laughing:mad:

duchy

Big hugs to you and your son.
Have you contacted the local paper-the more publicity there is about problems the more the police are likely to act upon it.

dipsy

sorry to hear that this has happened, I have to say you may have been unfortunate with the WPC you had attend to you... my son had bother at school and on the third occassion I told the school I was notifying the police, the police took a statement, keept it on record and were quite willing to track the youth in question via school records and have a word, which they did, they also informed the youth that further reports of this behaviour would land him in court with a record if found guilty.

touch wood this was 18months ago and no further repeats, I wouldn't let it drop, this bully needs to be told and sorted out before it gets out of hand.

Too often we hear reports of someone getting attacked at school and sometimes it turns out is the bully who comes off worse, because the person being bullied can't take anymore, if this was nipped in the bud and the police took stronger action this would become less common place.

I really feel for you and hope you and your son are ok and that this other kid leaves him alone..x

mae

Awe I'm so sorry your son had to go through this ordeal, it must have been so frightening and so humiliating for him. Your post made me fill up.

I am also sorry that not only did he have to go through that but also that the police did not give him the support and security that all of us should receive!

Take care

custardy

it is a hard one to take and when baseball bats start ot be involved then its a worry.
consider getting your son to do some form of self defence. being able to deflect/return that 1st hit may have nipped thisi n the bud before it escalated. im not encouraging he turn into a trained killer but a few learned moves can be a godsend in the right situation.

i do krav maga and even a few lessons could show someone how to defend enough ot escape from a situation

Blondie32_2

I totally understand how you feel cindiedunkley.

I ust posted a big reply but it has disappeared. Arggghh!!! I'll keep this one a bit shorter.

The same thing happened to my dad on saturday night at 7pm. He was walking down to his house after going for a walk around the block and 3 people that live 3 doors away jumped in their car, drove down and blocked my dads driveway so he could not get in. The woman that was in the back started shouting 'Get off the fuc**** pavement or im going to fuc**** kill you. She jumped out of the car and started hitting my dad on the head with the heal of her high heel shoes. The other 2 jumped out knocked him to the ground and repeatedly kicked him in the head and chest.

The mother who was still in their house came out and shouted ' you can stop now, he's had enough'. They jumped in the car and drove off.

My dad got himself into the house and as noone was home called the police. The police sent an ambulance and by the time they arrived my dad had just died on the carpet from a heart attack. Luckily they got him in time and he is now in hospital recovering.

The police have been no use whatsoever, did not ask if he wanted to charge them, just that they will come back to see him in a few weeks time.

Sorry for the rant but reading your post has made me so angry that people can get away with acting like this.

I hope that your son is OK and these people get what they deserve.

buxtonrabbitgreen

I feel sorry for your son Cindy. A similar thing happened to my 14 yo a couple of weeks ago. KHe was threatened by some boys in the park. He handed over his mobile which was a bit of a fancy one that he had for his birthday, rather than get into a fight in which he would have been outnumbered. I too am not at all happy with the police. This happened at 1..30 in the afternoon. He went straight to the police station adn they told him to come back at 6.30 to give a statement. What's the point in that. They would have been long gone. Where it happened there are lots of CCTV cameras so maybe they will be caught. But as you say what is going to happen to them. Nothing probably. And I think there is little chance of my DS getting his phone back. It really annoys me that some kids think they can just take and do what they want.